wireless Linux (was RE: [Sussex] Good tip for recovering from catastrophe)

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Guys,

First of all, thanks for the advice.

Having realised that in order to get to my ADSL link I need wireless access(!) 
I decided to skip Gentto and stick with deadrat. I've compiled the kernel with 
every single pcmcia option I could find and have now varied this over the 
course of the last few days doing about 5 or 6 compiles yesterday alone...

I now have a new problem:

The card is half-recognised (I get an error about the vendor name not 
existing) however iwconfig picks it up and will assign it the right SSID etc...

ifconfig -a tells me that eth0 is up and running and has an IP address/subnet 
mask that is corect for my network

I can't get one to talk to the other tho.  Is it as simple as doing an ln -s 
(I'm thinking not!) or is there a special way of binding pcmcia cards to 
eth0?  I've checked out all the faqs I can find about installing a zoomair 
card under linux and all they say is, "Well, install pcmcia_cs, install the 
prism drivers and Hey Presto! It works!". well, not on my system it don't

All help much appreciated,

TIA

Matt